Day: Ten C
Chapter: Twenty Five
Chapter Title: I Remember..
Time and Date: Monday 28 Oct, 8:17am
It seemed so long ago, and yet in reality it was only two days ago.
Two days; and in the timespan Severus had gained a lifetime of information.
He knew; and he prayed to whoever was listening; never to let him forget again.
He had woken up to distrusting eyes, and to a women who was cooing to him, and in such a way in that he must have found relaxing before (but now just made him want to throttle the woman) and it had been the revelation of a lifetime to realise, several minutes into the morning lullaby, that it was Minerva McGonagall singing to him.
She had seemed alarmed when he had woken up and greeted her with his usual, customary, "Hello McGonagall." In his usual tone. For a few minutes he hadn't noticed anything weird about that.
Then he had seen how she had stared at him. He might as well have slapped her around the face for as bright red as she went.
"Severus?" She had breathed, unbelieving and unaccustomed to how he usually was.
"Obviously."
"You're back..." At the time it seemed to be to him that she had almost sounded sad; and yet it was really obvious now that she was simply just shocked, and was unaccustomed to his usual sadistic, monotone voice.
Then she had hugged him. He hadn't liked that.
And he still had to get out of her why he had been sleeping with his head on her lap.
All he can say, is thank god it hadn't been the other way around; else that would have been incredibly awkward.